Nursery: Professional childcare workers lovingly care for children from birth on up. They attend to feeding, changing
and other basic needs while also reading to them and playing with them. Each child
benefits from being surrounded by their community of faith even before they know or speak
anything about God.
Toddler Class: Children ages 2 to 4 are invited to join Peggy Blackwell
(long-time teacher loved by children and parents alike) for a class full of stories and
activities designed to communicate God’s love. From the curriculum this class will
read a variety of biblically based, word and picture books about Jesus a Special Baby, The
Loving Shepherd, The First Church, Come to Jesus, Breakfast at the Lake, and Jesus Goes
Fishing. They will also sing, pray and play together.
God’s Galaxy: This is a very special education program designed for
children ranging in ages from Kindergarten through 6th grade. We follow a design
called
the Workshop Rotational Model (WoRM) where children learn about a single Bible story as
they rotate through different workshops that engage their multi-intelligences. So for one
story, they may see and hear and act it out with their bodies in the Drama Rotation,
retell it through the perspective of their puppet in the Puppet Rotation, retell the story
again through some form of art in the Art Rotation, play a computer game related to the
details of the story in the Computer Rotation, look around in creation to see the truth of
the story in the Garden Rotation, proclaim it in song for themselves and the world in the
Music Rotation, and etc. It is proven that children who actively participate in such a
program gain interest in church, remember the stories they have studied for a life time,
and most importantly remember our wonderful rotation leaders
who loved and cared for them in the name of Christ.
Youth: The youth will continue to explore the scriptures
through a variety of media. Right now, the youth group is
considering God through a curriculum built on the TV show: Joan of
Arcadia. This class
brings the Bible to life and allows our youth members many opportunities to explore faith and the world, and to
understand mission and service at a deeper level.
